10 Rajya Sabha candidates, including 8 from BJP, elected unopposed from Uttar Pradesh
Lucknow: Eight candidates of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and two candidates of Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on Monday (November 2). The final date for the withdrawal of names for election to the Upper House was on Monday.
The BJP candidates who’ve been elected embody Union Minister Hardeep Singh Puri, Arun Singh, Haridwar Dubey, Brij Lal, Neeraj Shekhar, Geeta Shakya, Seema Dwivedi, and BL Varma.
Prof Ram Gopal Yadav of the Samajwadi Party was declared elected unopposed whereas the BSP`s Ramji Gautam was additionally elected to the Upper House.
Earlier, a political drama was witnessed for the tenth seat between BSP`s Ramji Gautam and an impartial candidate Prakash Bajaj, backed by the SP. The matter was resolved when the nomination of Bajaj was canceled and the BSP candidate gained regardless of having solely ten votes of his social gathering.
BJP’s Naresh Bansal declared elected unopposed to RS from Uttarakhand
Senior BJP chief Naresh Bansal was declared elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Uttarakhand at this time with no different social gathering within the contest. Bansal was handed over the certificates of his election from the seat by Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha Secretary Mukesh Singhal because the deadline for withdrawal of nominations got here to an finish right here at three pm.
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Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat, his cupboard colleagues Subodh Uniyal, Arvind Pandey, Pradesh BJP president Basidhar Bhagat and a number of social gathering MLAs have been current as Bansal was declared elected unopposed to the Upper House of Parliament.
Polling for the seat was scheduled to be held on November 9 but it surely grew to become pointless as no different social gathering fielded its candidate from the seat. As per the constitutional norms, in circumstances like these, the lone candidate within the fray is given the certificates of the election on the finish of the deadline for withdrawal of nominations.
Bansal’s unopposed election to the Upper House from Uttarakhand was a mere formality with the BJP having 57 out of a complete of 70 seats within the state meeting and no challenger to him within the fray.
Bypoll for K’taka RS seat on December 1
The Election Commission on Monday introduced that bypoll to the Rajya Sabha seat from Karnataka vacated following the loss of life of Ashok Gasti as a consequence of COVID-19 shall be held on December 1.
Ashok Gasti of BJP had died on September 17. His time period as a Rajya Sabha member was in any other case to finish in June, 2026.
According to the EC assertion, the notification for the bypolls shall be issued on November 11. Notably, the counting of votes will happen an hour after voting is accomplished.
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